Play the game, wear the game. (T-shirt pic from ThinkGeek.com, where you can buy this lovely item.)

I knew Comicpalooza chairman John Simons poured a ton of mana into the annual Houston comic convention, but I had no idea just how much until he announced plans for a Rock Paper Scissors Lizard Spock World Championship.

Rock Paper Scissors Lizard Spock plays the way it sounds, basically a geek twist on the original game of Rock Paper Scissors. Sam Kass and Karen Bryla developed it more than a decade ago, but most of us never heard of it until 2008’s “The Lizard-Spock Expansion” episode of The Big Bang Theory, wherein one Sheldon Cooper explained its rules thusly: